Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ...
The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ...
The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ...
The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

Whichever way they sliced the data, Azoulay, Manzo and Z... that the more open-ended, risky HHMI grants were funding... important, unusual, and influential research. HHMI resea... no better qualified than their NIH-funded peers, were fa...
The HHMI re

DataSift is the real time social media filtering engine ... which builds upon the success of TweetMeme, the consumer... MediaSift Ltd.
DataSift provides very granular and modular ‘sifting†...
The world is moving to streams, and consumers will consu

I think it is worthwhile calling attention on one of the... not be seen as a “core” SPARQL query language docume... Graph Store HTTP Protocol.
Indeed, this document stands a little bit apart. Instead ...

There is a vast amount of data available today and data ... collected and stored at a rate never seen before. Much, ... this data however is locked into specific applications o...
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for que ...
OData is co

Our ambition is to become the world leader in open data,... accountability revolution that the internet age has unle...

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & edu... the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has g... amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free.... enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and... Our whole m

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This dataset contains information for virtually all UK r... for the lines (routes) that the stations lie on. Links a... the stations and routes, and between adjacent stations. ... included to Wikipedia, dbpedia.org, the National Rail En... and geoname

As I coach new developers, I've taken to scribbling out ... diagram for visualizing the creative process again and a... coffee-ringed napkins. In order to limit my future abus...
The conversation usually starts with the following state ...
And when co

30 excellent free ux tools
Posted: February 28, 2011 | Author: usabilitygal | Filed ...
uxforthemasses.com have created a great list of 25 free ...
Prototyping tools
... Total validator

Game design is a process of informed iteration, not a fi...
How to write a design log
Start with a concept: At the very bottom of the des ...
Build the prototype: Design logs exist as a supplem ...
... stuff is at the top and the old stuff is

Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobby... that would make Nevada the first state where they could ... on public roads.

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A core tenet of Buyosphere is a C2B (that’s consumer-t... communication flow. In other words, rather than business... gathering data on your behavior and pushing advertising ...
“At Buyosphere, you gather what you buy and own, a ...
As the Do N

Google is approaching a watershed moment in its internal... time is nearly at hand when they will have to decide onc... Android is, what Chrome OS is, and where they are both g... to say it has not been internally decided and even worke...
The hint is

One's culture is too deeply linked with one's language. ... the barometer of one's culture. If one knows one's langu... can know one's own culture well. One can never reach int... eternal understanding through somebod y else's mother to... a shadow ov

This is not a new trick, sorting a table using the DOM. ...
Now, how to use it. To make a table of your choice sorta ...
Download the Javascript library
Include the Javascript library, by putting a link to ...
... w have column sorting available

This graph shows how the UK's budget deficit has fluctua... of the country's economic output (GDP):
UK budget deficit by GDP

Retail Price Index Since 1960
Consumer and Retail Price Indices 1996 onwards.
Retail Price Index by month: 1976 - 1995.
January 1987=100. The index is for December. The annual ...

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics ... borrowing up to October 2010. The figures go all the way... 1940s. It seems that all the political parties have face... of debt through the years - as if the economic climate h... independent

On the new website access to detailed time series data w... new data explorer tool. Users will also be able to use t... facility to find datasets that contain specific time ser... interested in (including searching by CDID).
Complete detailed time seri

What is the Time Series Data service?
This is a free service that allows you to access and ...
You can access complete data histories of the time s ...
You can download complete releases or make your own ...
... ur character code, can be acce

It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a plann... multiply violating elementary norms of international law... have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as... have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no oppos... they claim,

National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN)
Local authorities are using NaPTAN to code information f ...

tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HT...
Multi-column sorting
Parsers for sorting text, URIs, integers, currency, ...
Support secondary "hidden" sorting (e.g., maintain a ...
... Small code size

"An exhaustive - if bonkers - work of genius!" Mike Tucker
In the spring of 2002, before most of the world had hear ...

This ancient Tiree battle is believed to have been fough...
Vikings try to take Tiree
Vikings try to take Tiree
Fionn (meaning “Fair”) was the son of an irish mothe ...
The story continues with the Norsemen landing and the ba ...

You may well have seen many simulations of sorting algor... show in novel ways how the algorithm works or perhaps do... as well as it should. However I guarantee that you have ...
Take one Central European folk dancing team, a small fol ...
sortdance